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Word: inched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind this sordid record lies the soul of a romantic. On his left arm Marks wears a tattooed double heart inscribed "Love, Nellie." On his right is an eight-inch snake coiled about a dagger stuck through the top of a skull and bearing Marks's motto, which happens to be "Death Before Dishonor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Chief Executioner | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Aerobee-Hi research rocket with a special camera. Fired from the White Sands missile range in New Mexico, the rocket soared through the atmosphere; 123 miles up, the camera began clicking. The camera was fitted with a mirror ruled with a grating of fine lines, 15,000 to the inch, designed to filter out the sun's glaring visible light, which otherwise would have overwhelmed the Lyman-alpha rays given off by the clouds. To keep the camera stabilized in the nose of the yawing rocket, University of Colorado physicists had devised a highly sophisticated motor-operated mount, equipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun No Man Ever Saw | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...surface. Leading off from the chamber was a shaft measuring 2½ by 1½ ft. A young Oxford student, Neil Moss, 20, led the way but after a few moments' descent, his alarmed cry came back: "I'm stuck! I can't budge an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Man in the Shaft | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...East of Eden" is a fine movie with which to begin the post-vacation term. Presumably the viewer has been softened-up with enough adult westerns and 21-inch-screen emotions to welcome Julie Harris, Burle Ives, Raymond Massey and even Jimmy Dean. Besides, it's all in technicolor and wide-screen, which is quite a treat at the Brattle...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: East of Eden | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also has guts. When a backing horse broke his hip, Bond bellered for his Scotch and milk (the milk is for his ulcer, he explains, the Scotch for him), was on the set next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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